When you have contacts from multiple sources, you might have multiple entries for the same person. In the Contacts app, link contact cards for the same person in different accounts so they appear only once in your All Contacts list.
Linked contact cards are displayed as a single unified contact. Contact cards with the same first and last name can also be merged, one at a time or all at once.
Resolve duplicate contacts
Have two or more contact cards with the same first and last name? Merge the duplicate contacts.
- Start the Contacts app on your iPhone.
- Below My Card, tap View Duplicates.
- Tap individual contacts to review and merge them, or tap Merge All to merge all duplicate contacts.
Link contacts manually
Two entries for the same person that aren’t linked automatically can be unified manually.
- Start the Contacts app on your iPhone.
- Tap one of the contacts, tap Edit, and then tap Link Contacts.
- Choose the other contact entry to link to and tap Link.
When you link contacts with different first or last names, the names on the individual cards don’t change, but only one name appears on the unified card. To choose which name appears on the unified card, tap one of the linked cards, tap the contact’s name on that card, then tap Use This Name For Unified Card.
Note: Linking contacts doesn’t merge them. Any changes or new information you add in a unified contact are copied to each source account where that information already exists.
